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SERVICE AND CLUB PROJECTS

  • Help tutor children in local middle school-Martin Luther King Jr. High
  • Enable local high school children to participate in community service  projects and leadership training-Leo Club sponsor at St. Mary's College High School
  • Sponsor and distribute Holiday Food Boxes annually to needy Berkeley families  
  • Holiday Caroling at senior citizen facilities in West Berkeley
  • Help at 'Special Kids Day' for physically and mentally challenged children
  • Work with Christmas in April/Rebuilding Together to repair homes and make them safer for the needy elderly and disabled in the community
  • Hold Student Speakers Contests for high school students with scholarship for winner  
  • Collect used eyeglasses and hearing aids for distribution and use in other countries
  • Clean, sort and package used eyeglasses for distribution worldwide
  • Sponsor a Berkeley Youth Baseball team
  • Sponsor Peace Poster Contest for Berkeley middle school children
  • Annual work project within Berkeley on Lions International World Service Day
  • Help staff Wilderness Camp for deaf children
  • Provide American Flags and information to young Berkeley school children

ORGANIZATIONS WE SUPPORT

  • Oakland Blind Center and Diablo Valley Blind Center - providing vocational and practical living skills and training for the vision impaired
  • Lions Eye Foundation - providing free eye surgery and care for low income persons
  • Lions Hearing Foundation - providing hearing aids and care for low income persons
  • Sightsavers  - providing new eyeglasses and care for low income persons
  • Lions in Sightsending used eyeglasses for distribution and use in other countries
  • Lions for Youth - providing teacher training in Lions Quest programs for school children
  • Wilderness Camp for Deaf - ­providing free camping to hearing impaired children
  • Seeing Eye Expedition - providing doctors to do free eye surgeries around the world
  • Lions Club International Foundation - ­providing among the most rapid emergency relief and charitable grants throughout the world
  • Canine Companions for Independence - ­providing specially trained assistance dogs for people with physical, developmental and hearing disabilities
  • City of Hope - providing multi-specialty hospital care and research facilities

FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES

  • White Cane Days (October)
  • Crab Feed (January)
  • Youth & Community Activities GFund
  • Entertainment Books
  • E-Scrip
  • Oakland A's Baseball Games
  • U.C. Football Games

WEST BERKELEY LIONS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

  • January - Crab Feed
  • February - Student Speaker's Contest
  • March  -Eyeglass Cleaning
  • April - Christmas in April; Specia Kids' Day; Club Elections
  • May - District Convention
  • June - Club Officer Installation and Awards
  • July - International Convention
  • August - Lions Night at the A's Taigate Party
  • September - Woodminster Theater Musical and Dinner
  • October - White Cane Days; World Service Day; Club Famiily Picnic
  • November - Charter Anniversary Celebration
  • December - Food Box Distribution; Holiday Party
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